001This is the May 12th, 2025 regular meeting of the Clarkston Community Schools Board of Education. We will begin with our statutoily required public tax hearing with regard to tax rates for the upcoming upcoming year, excuse me. And to make a presentation is our executive director of business services, Mary Beth Rogers. You okay? Yeah. Okay. All righty. So, this is the public tax hearing that's required and um right now we're looking at our 18 mills operating on Homestead. We just renewed that. That renewal though won't start until the uh next levy though, even though it was renewed, but we're still at 18 mills, so we're good. But it was renewed, but that one starts for the 26th. This is for 25. Um, so we are still we're still good there and our debt mills are still
002at 7 mills and then you can see our taxable value and then it increase just under 6%. So we're still having large taxable increases every year. And then real quick there we go. Just like to show this slide. I've got in the habit the last couple years of showing this slide just to show you a lot of the savings that we've been giving the community on all our seven mills debt that they allow us to levy. We have completed 11 refunds since 2005 and these net savings have given us over 18 $18.8 million being and another 11 million 11.6 6 million in cost interest cost avoidance with a net savings of 30.5 million to the community on all of our debt and refundings that we've been doing over the years. And then um we've also
003been earning additional investment interest now that the rates have gone up. Uh we started investing our funds because we make our payment we receive our money in the summer from the debt levy. we make we don't have to make the payment until May to um for our school bond loan fund payments. So I've been just investing all that tax money in a little higher yields and that got us 351,000 in 23 just under 500,000 in 24 and I'm anticipating around 390,000 for this year in additional interest to bring down our debt and cost to our community. So that would that is the end of my presentation. If anybody has any questions on our public tax hearing. Okay. At this point, anybody in the public this is a public tax hearing. So anybody in the audience
004that has any questions on the uh information that's been presented or anybody from the board, please feel free to come up to the podium. Going once. Going twice. Okay, we will then close the tax hearing at uh 6:50 and we will commence the regular meeting in about 10 minutes. Good evening everybody. It's 7 pm. We'll call to order the regular portion of the regular May meeting of the Clarkston Community Schools Board of Education. If you could all please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mrs. Mlan, can you please call the role? Mr. Clark, here. Mrs. Egan, here. Mrs. McInness here. Mr. Hyer here. Mrs.
005Love here. Mrs. Crane here. Mr. Ne here. This meeting is a meeting of the board of education in public for the purpose of conducting the school district's business and is not to be considered a public community hearing. There is a time for public participation during the meeting as indicated in agenda items three and nine. Item two is approval of the consent agenda. May I have a motion, please? I move that the board of education approves the consent agenda as presented. Support motions made and supported. One of the items does require a roll call vote. So, Mrs. Mlan, do you please call the role again? Mrs. Crane, yes. Mr. Hire, yes. Mr. Clark, yes. Mrs. Love, yes. Mrs. McInness, yes. Mrs. Egan, yes. Mr. Ne, yes. Motion carried. Thank you. Item three is the first opportunity
006for citizens to address the board. You're given two opportunities to address the board. Under this item, item 3.1, you can request to address the board on any topic that's on tonight's agenda, which is uh at least in part displayed on the screen before. And then under item nine, you can address the board on any topic. When making comments, please state your name and address. Direct your comments here to the board president. Each person may speak for up to two minutes per established board procedures. The board will not respond to questions or interact with the speaker during public comment, although we may refer the matter to administration for followup. Um, Mr. Lucito, can you check the we have a signup sheet in front? Okay. Is there anybody that want wanted to address the board on an
007agenda topic? Okay. Seeing none again, anybody can is welcome to address the board later on under item nine. Item four is our superintendent update. Dr. Ryan, thank you, President Ne. Good evening, community. Welcome. It's great to see such a nice crowd. Believe it or not, most Monday nights that we have board meetings, it's not quite this filled, but we'll take it. It's nice to have a little bit of participation. And it's nice to be able to get together on this amazing spring day to celebrate and to acknowledge the hard work of so many of our staff members that have achieved the level of tenure. And it brings back good memories. It's kind of an affirmation for us all who have been working in Clarkson for a while. And every time I have one of these
008nights as the years slip by, I look over and I see Mr. Gary Call in the second row paying close attention to his boss as we go through this one more time. And to think Mr. call 25 years ago, give or take, you and I were getting tenure at the board office and that part of our career and it seems like it was just yesterday and I just remember how exciting and how excited I was to be part of the Clarkson family and I somehow felt like this evening was an official adoption into that family is exciting and being part of something bigger than yourself, being together, being able to do that in front of your family this evening uh is special and I just want to start my update by just saying how absolutely
009proud I am of everybody in this room and how much I appreciate all the family members, friends, spouse, wives, children, grandparents, and everyone else that came out to cheer you on. It's a big deal. You did it. So, congratulations on that. Second update, a couple things related to our kids. And I will have to again, Mr. call. We didn't require these 25 years ago, but to be able to see uh close up, uh should be known that our business professionals of America students competed at a national conference in Orlando, Florida last week. The team of Andy Hakula, Evan Bas, and Gavin Peruski finished second place in the world in the virtual financial portfolio event. Seniors Evan Seavoy placed in the top 10 overall in the advanced interview skills event. and sophomore Isaiah Isaac competed in
010the fundamentals of the county and senior Jason Le took part in several the opening testing events related to business. I want to applaud those students. I like to bring kids names always into the forefront of our consciousness and what we're about here in Clarkson and be able to celebrate these students. Also, welcome to the busiest time of the year. U this 30 Thursday Thursday marks the last day for our Clarkson High School and RHS seniors. Uh CHS has their senior walk and picnic and RHS has their clap out for graduating seniors on that day as well. Should be known that this week the Clarkson Foundation teacher of the year cere ceremony will be held in this room on Thursday afternoon. On Saturday afternoon from 1 to 3 will host an open house at Clarkson Junior
011High for the community members to take one last look at the old girl that we all started our careers. many of us here, Clarkson, the old Clarkson High School, the current junior high. Um, as uh demolition begins on the gym area and and really starting of wholesale uh this summer, for those of you here in the audience, you drive by in Walden Road, get ready. You thought the landscaping was starting to change when we put up the gym, wait till we see what we do with the main academic area behind Clark Senel. It's really going to knock your socks off. It's amazing to see the construction going on so far, and it's exciting to be part of that. Um, lastly, RHS graduation will be on Thursday, May 29th, and Clarkson High School graduation will be
012on Monday, June 2nd. The last half day of school for all of our students is this f is that Friday, uh, June 6th. So, a lot of things going on. um looking at all the spring sports and all the competitions and just this last couple weeks seeing the the school play at the high school, there's so many different areas that our our students are being able to show um their talents, their intelligence and and their drive and uh it's just a great time to be in Clarkson right now. So, thank you, President Ene. Thank you, Dr. Ryan. We have two presentation items tonight. The first one is a CHS media program update. Dr. Ryan, thank you. come on up. Media is a centerpiece of a lot of things that we do that's behind the scenes.
013U they're an integral part of not only what our students at the high school get to experience, but really an interface with the entire Clarkston community. And we have Matt Blow here to kind of give us an update and some of the highlights. Hi everyone, members of the board, audience members, former student at Clarkson High School. Indeed, Clarkson alumni. Uh my name is Matt Blow. I'm the media production and theater arts teacher for both Clarkson High School and Renaissance High School. Um, a while back, Independence Television and uh, Clarkson Schools kind of merged the video program. And this year, we're deciding, hey, let's make some more presentations to both the township board and the school board just so kind of the board and the community kind of knows all the cool stuff that's going on
014uh, in the media programs there. Uh, Heidi, if you could hit the next slide there. Oh. Oh, yep. I got my clicker. I got it. There we go. First, uh, a little bit of background about myself. Uh, as stated, I was a Clarkston High School graduate all the way back in 2007. Uh, from there, I went to Central Michigan where I got my bachelor's applied arts, majoring in broadcast cinematic arts, minoring in theater, minoring in music. Stuck around, got my master of arts with a concentration in electronic media production. And then in 2013, that's when uh, the township and schools kind of merged their video programs into one thing. uh sometimes referred to as the media program, sometimes referred to as Independence Television, and I was actually hired by Independence Township to be their full-time
015video producer. And after a while there, uh I became the station manager. Uh and then, uh in 2020, uh the previous media teacher who I had learned from who inspired my initial love for media, retired. And uh I figured, you know, I have an interest in teaching. Both my parents were in education. I figured if I was ever going to do it, this would be a good time. So in 2020, um I applied for that job and was selected. Uh and I've been teaching in Clarkson High School in Renaissance since then. And in 2022, I got my uh CTE uh standard teaching certificate, CTE, radio and TV broadcasting tech. And I actually have a couple purposes at this meeting. Not only this, but I'm a prospective tenure teacher here. So I'll be up again a
016little bit uh later there. Um, first let's talk a little bit about uh the program itself, the various productions uh the program does. Before I get into some of the specifics, I do want to note uh aside from myself here, we do have some of our students in the audience here. We're adding a couple cameras to tonight's affair, uh we have one student kind of running the tririccaster and two other students running some additional cameras at tonight's event. are not normally here uh for schoolboard meetings, but this is kind of a similar setup when we're doing uh various live events. Um to kind of highlight the things we've done this year, uh we've done four football games, four basketball games, two soccer games, three lacrosse games, uh recorded and stream things like holiday lights parade,
017college 101 night, state of the community, uh Clarkson area youth assistant awards, and Clarkson High School senior awards. Those are just the things that have staff supervision but also are are run with the student crew. The students are running the tririccaster which is the switching between the cameras. They're running the cameras. Sometimes they're running replay or graphics things like that. And then some other things that have had either myself or the staff of ITV kind of assist on have ranged from open enrollment interviews, uh career technical education teacher interviews, uh military wall dedication that happened a little while ago, um elementary school history program. We have a summer media camp and then we're even gearing up for a movie night with the Clarkson High School leadership uh program that's actually happening this night, I'm sorry,
018Wednesday night at Clarkson High School's parking lot. Kind of doing a drive-in deal with kind of a inflatable screen there. Uh but yeah, those are just the live events we've done in terms of the regular classes. And this is both at Clarkston and Renaissance High School. Uh so far this year, they've done roughly 12 PSAs, which are our public service announcements. They've done eight parody videos, 14 short films and documentaries, 10 variety show segments, uh six leadership promos, podcast, Wolf Time announcement videos, currently finishing up their showcase film, which is kind of a capstone project, uh and some other various projects as well. Uh the media program actually has two articulation agreements. Uh Far State has one with a lot of career and technical education courses. Uh, but Central, we were able to start one
019up here a couple years back and I think we were actually one of the first ones to do that at Central and that's kind of blossomed and now Central's having a lot of articulation agreements with other media programs. So students that kind of take certain classes and you know do well can then you know get college credit uh if they're pursuing media as kind of their uh career of choice in college there. And then um couple other things uh we had Sam West win uh the career and technical student excellence award. He's actually one of our camera ops here tonight. And then lastly, there are some paid internship opportunities for both current students and former students over the summer with Independence Television. Uh we have, I think, two former students doing that this summer. I'm
020coming back home and we're going to put them to work doing some events and other things like that. um with the class some nonvideo stuff we do uh we talk about film history we talk about first amendment concepts uh certain legal protocols like copyright some film analysis and we've even started doing some field trips to MJR where not only do we get to watch a movie on the big screen but we also talk to one of the theater managers about what it takes to run a theater what goes into scheduling the you know master schedule for all the films then have a class discussion uh on that film later on there. Uh, in terms of social media, um, Independence Television and the media program kind of run a lot of the YouTube stuff you see
021for both Independence Township and, uh, the schools. Uh, but I'm highlighting just the two channels that kind of impact you guys the most here. Uh, the first Clarkson High School announcements channel. Um, we kind of do, uh, we collect some announcements from, you know, various topics or events that are going on and then I require one of my my students to make videos. those get kind of packaged together and they're a part of the wolf time segment that happens generally once every other week kind of twice a month. Um the stats from that channel from end of the April of 2024 to kind of end of April 2025 had over 11,000 views and over 222 hours of watch time there. And I don't want to play the whole video, but I just want to play
022a little segment of it. Uh Heidi, can you pull up that? Uh perfect. Perfect. Not going to play the whole thing, but just to give you a little taste. These are kind of what the announcement videos looks like for Wolf Tie. Hi, CHS. Welcome to the April 23rd, 2025 edition of the CHS announcements. I'm Sam West. We have kind of our talking head piece, kind of our news style piece. And then we also have some graphics that we incorporate throughout the production as well. And then in this particular video, we even had them highlight a couple other things. This was right before Clue came out. So, one student actually made like a promo video showcasing Clue encouraging people to come out and see the show and get some tickets. And they got to film various
023things for that, including some of the rehearsals. And then the other video we had was uh right prior to uh AP testing here, and they got to talk about study tips right before AP testing uh kind of comes about there. So, that's just one example of them. Uh didn't want to play the whole thing. if you want to watch them, they are on YouTube free for anyone to, you know, check out. But just wanted to give you uh that little uh taste there. And the channel that uh is probably most relevant, the actual Clarkson Community Schools YouTube channel itself where we're live streaming uh right now uh from roughly end of April to of 2024 to end of April 2025. Uh over 25,000 views and almost 2,500 hours of watch time there. And on the
024Clarks Community Schools YouTube channel, that's the sporting events, that's school board, and that's a bunch of other videos uh as well that are school relevant, either produced by students or produced with other teachers or other staff, uh things of that nature. In terms of what we got coming up next, uh as uh Dr. Ryan mentioned, we got a couple events here. uh leadership movie night coming up on the 14th. But then of course the big things are both the Renaissance High School graduation and Clarkson High School graduation which we both record uh and live stream on May 29th and June 2nd there. Uh but yeah, just wanted to give you a little taste of what's going on at both Clarkson and Renaissance in terms of the media program. Uh if you have any questions, I'd
025be happy to answer them, but if you have questions later, my email is on the screen. Uh mfle AU and then of course at Clarkston.k12. k12.mmi. us. Any questions or comments? Mrs. McInness, I would just say I really like the expanded format that you're using here. Um I know the beloved teacher prior to you was um very exploratory in what he provided for students. Um, but I really like the breadth of the um, programming that you're providing, the inclusion of both students and alumni in the working of the of the TV channel and these extra leadership movie nights and stuff. I think they're really great and I think they're a really great thing to help build community. I was talking to somebody the other day and said to them, if you're not in the um,
026basketball on the basketball floor or in the football field on Friday night, you're in the wrong place. I might have to add to that in the parking lot at Clarkson High School. Now, thank you. There you go. Any other comments? You know, I told you just before the meeting, my my son participated in inter collegiate lacrosse and I watched a lot of live streams as part of that when we couldn't make the far away games. And I have to say the quality of the production that I see from you guys equals or exceeds what I saw there. In fact, I was a various sometimes when I watch some of those other productions. But it's something that you folks can very be very very proud of. Good job. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right.
027We have one more presentation. Item 5.2 our sister school presentation. Dr. Ryan. Thank you. Miss Fedors, come on down. Sensei Valadoris, affectionately known, uh, leads our Japanese program in Clarson Community Schools, and she's been spearheading the efforts over the years with our sister school in Ki High School in Japan. And yes, from time to time when we have student exchanges, we have entire classes from Japan come over to the United States and interact and be able to engage with us. And then we send our cohorts over there. And it's been been a wonderful relationship over the years. and they we'd be able to give us an update. Yes. I actually want to even introduce it to those of you that don't know we have an exchange program. I met Greg Ne at our celebration last
028year and Greg had no idea which I understand. COVID hit. We were closed for 5 years. Japan was closed. You know, definitely nobody came here. So, I just want to reintroduce it. Um, show you what we do. Um, I'm hitting the wrong mouse. Can I use this? Okay. So, the history is I started working here in 2006 and I received an email from a teacher in Japan. I had no idea this program existed asking me if I wanted to continue the program. I'm like, "Yeah, sure. Why not? I love Japan. Let's do this." I didn't realize the amount of work that was going to go into it. But as the years go by, I got better and better at it. Now, it's I don't have to think about it. Sometimes I just do all the
029prep for it. Um when we started when I started here it was 10 students and two teachers that came they would come for a two-eek visit. Two weeks is a bit of time because I have to find host families for my students and for the teachers. And then when we changed to seme trimesters around was it 2010 2011 around there. Um we decided to go down to a one week just because the time they came didn't fit in right with um for having a two week stay. So we did a one week and one day they reached out to me and asked me if we could increase from 10 students. So we moved up from to 12 14 and now we've been at 16 years for 16 students for a couple years now who come
030to Japan as well as us going to Japan or come into Clarks and then we go back to Japan. So what happens during the visit um their students prepare presentations on Japanese culture life, teenage life, history and they come and they present in front of all my students. Um I'm at the high school and the junior high. All these presentations are done in English and these kids have these presentations memorized. They come in and they present and the just the excitement from them and that they can present to us and be in America and the first thing they're they say is this high school is so huge face sensei. They're just amazed at like everything here in Michigan. Um the picture on the left last year we went to Clarkson L. We did a visit
031with the um fourth and fifth graders there. Um, so we like to do something a little spread the love, give it to the elementary kids as well. Um, they then in return we go to Japan and I typically take 15 16 students. Last summer I had 16. This summer I'll have 15 students. So my students in return go to Japan and they present in Japanese. Now they're not all memorized, but they have their note cards. But it's such a great time because students that come here and are hosted by my students in return are able to host them in Japan. So that right there is a true exchange. Um presentations that they love, which we're going to do this summer, a dance, well, not me. They're going to do a dance presentation. They love the
032cooking lessons. Um they love to take pictures and the peace sign is huge in Japan, so you got to do it. Uh so in last summer or last um March we had a 2024 2020 was supposed to be our 20-year celebration but due to co we couldn't have it. So this was a makeup for 2020. I prepared this celebration and we had the cafeteria at the high school and I wanted the community to see Japanese culture. So we had origami, we had chopstick contest games, they got to wear school uniforms, a variety of things. since that's where I met Greg Ne who came by to see it and the turnout was better than I thought it would be. I expected oh 50 people to be fine but no it was pretty steady and it was
033uh it was a good time. It was chaotic for a minute there but it was just amazing to see like those are my students wearing uniforms. Um taking pictures with my students in this event too was just amazing. I've I have these kids sometimes for seven years so I get to know them and their family. Uh we got a uh stand. I have some friends who um they're expats, the women, and they do yukata wearing. So boys, girls, adults, kids, everybody got to try on a kimono and take pictures. And that was the biggest part of the celebration. They loved having um to where you caught them for a little bit. This year when they came, I wanted to do something different. So with the help of Chris Rogers, I started ASL project and we
034went to draw disaster relief at work and we filled 90 buckets in about an hour and a half. I did this alongside Patty Hiller from Renaissance High School and her students. They told me the amount of work that we did in an hour and a half would take them about four hours. So that was a huge success for us. Uh this summer, as you probably know, I'll be heading over to Japan with 15 students and that's my chapro, Miss Kalinowski. Um we're going to visit the typical places, Kyoto, and Nara, Osaka, Hiroshima. And then the second week, we'll go back to Jiba with our host with our host school and my students will be staying with host families, some of them with the students they hosted here in Michigan, and they will get to present
035at Chibbehagashi High School there. And I did bring a couple of my students to talk about just quickly just give you an overview of their experience going to Japan last summer. Who wants to go first? All right, Paul. Hello. Um hello. Uh my name is Paul. Uh it was it was an actual it was an honor and a privilege to be a part of this program. um lifelong memories and a lifelong relationship with um my buddy Koshi who is um who was the Japanese student that came over here that I got to host and vice versa. He hosted me when I went to Japan. Um when he came over here uh he's obsessed with basketball I found out. So we went and we went to Piston games and he was non-stop about basketball and sports
036and uh there's also this kind of language barrier as well. But like once we got over that um it almost uh it helped us create this bond that almost was unbreakable. Even though he's overseas, I still uh I still keep in contact with him, make checking up on how he's doing. Currently, he's going to uh he's going to college and now he's trying to uh he's trying to get he's studying English so he can come over here to the US to get a job as well. So, but uh it was just uh it was amazing them being over here. I I really had to get out of my comfort zone to kind of understand what it's like to be in their shoes coming over here. And obviously when I went over there, it was just
037absolutely amazing. I cannot describe to you the amazing things that I saw over there. The I got to see all these different temples. As as much as as weird it is as weird as it sounds, going to these different like um religious temples and all this stuff, it was absolutely like amazing. I just I never thought I would say this, but I I I actually enjoyed learning so much over there that I just wanted to keep I just wanted to stay. So, uh and obviously presenting to them in Japanese was also kind of a a trip. It was really weird and they they loved every second of it and I and the American students loved every second of it. Um, so and honestly I can't thank you enough for giving me this opportunity and just
038a friendship that I thought I would never I would never have. So thank you. Uh, hello. I'm Lucas. Thank you for your time today. Uh, I'm a former member or a former student of CHS and student of Sensei over here and I was honored enough to be part of the exchange program. When my student Tatsumar first came here, it there was a bit of a language barrier. It was kind of hard to communicate with him, but that didn't stop us from forming such a deep bond uh so quickly. I got to spend a week with him and we had so much fun. We bonded together. I got to show him how I lived my life and how I did my day-to-day stuff. I told him around Detroit, showed them like how I live my life,
039the essentials like Culver's. Um I and then vice versa. I got to go over to Japan and he showed me how he how he lived uh his life and it was just I cannot give enough thanks for sensei for this opportunity cuz it is truly a once in a-lifetime uh experience for me and truly thank you so much. So, my name is Spencer Brennan and I went to Japan last summer and I hosted a student uh the year before then and my sister who was also a part of this program hosted a student when she was in school and I really have when I went to Japan, it was I was I joined Japanese I like started the Japanese language class because I really liked the Japanese culture And when I found out about this
040Japanese exchange program, I was like like really kind of ecstatic about it almost. That's the word I would use because I really wanted to go to Japan. And once I was actually there, it was a really cool experience. And it was really really fun to actually go there and like stay with their family for a week, like actually like experience like a day-to-day life and like talk to their parents. Like I was like a part of their family for a little bit. And the person that hosted me was the same person I hosted the year before. So we had already known each other for a little bit. And it was really cool. like he got to see how I lived, then I saw how he lived and it was just like not just like an
041exchange of like students but also also this exchange of cultures. Um my name's Ava Ross and I was both hosted by a student in Japan and I hosted a a student twice. Um, and um, I'm forever grateful, extremely grateful towards Sensei for giving me the opportunity to experience both things as someone who has been interested in the Japanese culture since elementary school. Um, over time my passion for learning about the culture kind of faded as I got more involved with other classes, but getting to actually experience like living with someone from Japan for a little bit was very extremely I don't know what word I would use to describe it, but it was one of the best experiences of my life. I got to um exchange diff uh it wasn't just she w came here
042to learn be in America and learn about America. It was we exchanged stuff and we got to really communicate and even if there was a language barrier, we worked through it and we both learned uh the others language and movies and like just pop culture and it was really interesting and it really uh brought back my love for Japan and learning Japanese back to me. So, I forever appreciate that. Sorry, I didn't know they're going to talk so long. Um, I invite you all to come visit next year when they come in March. Please stop in the high school. I'm there first through third and I'm at the high the junior high fifth and sixth hour. Pop in anytime you can just to see what they do. It's it's a great experience. Um, and I
043just I mean I can go through this fast. The importance of this program is learning a language that is so important in Michigan. Traveling to Japan is a great opportunity to you learn use language you've been learning. Students make lifelong friends from their Japanese guests or hosts. Traveling opens your eyes to new cultures and languages. And if anyone's ever interested in hosting a teacher, I'm always looking for someone to host the teachers. Very hard to find host for the teachers. But on that note, go do you have any questions? Any questions or comments from board members? I I think it's just tremendous that we have these opportunities for our kids. It is a life-changing experience and I did very much enjoy the reception, the 20 year or whatever reception I went to. It really was.
044I still can't use chopsticks, but you know, I'm I'm getting there. So, I appreciate that. Thank you again. And thanks to all of you for coming and sharing your thoughts as well. That was excellent. Thanks. Thank you. Nice job. [Applause] start this off. So I'll just administer item 6.1 is the purpose. Many of you are in the audience tonight our tenure approval and we will uh begin with Mr. Lucito. Yep. Good evening. My name is John Lucito. I'm the assistant superintendent of administrative services. Um and I have the honor tonight to announce our 2024 2025 tenure recipients. Um, as I call your name, I'm going to ask that you start a line right in front of Mrs. Mlan's desk there, and we'll prepare to take the oath in front of the board. Kyle Albury, Stephanie
045Banks, Caitlyn Bar, Brandy Bates, Matthew Blow, Alexander Bolt, Chelsea Bordon, Emily Bacto, Kelly Cotal, John Co, Ashley Chamberlain, Gabrielle Chin, Grace Cook, Emily Dah, Maria Dichon, Tamara Dyton, Andrea Duhane, Zachary Evans, James Feld, Tyler Folultz, Jacquellyn Frederickson, Matthew Gobble, Adam Goring, Georgina Gurgus, Alexander Hawk, Kimberly Hicks, Madison Hill, Gabrielle Jerome, Amanda Keenir, Christopher Keith, Chelsea Carbellis, Nicole Ken, Andrew Ladlaw, Jared Lawrence, Lauren Majestic, Kelly Matiac, Samantha McClory, Katon McGregor, Matthew McKay, Sarah Mertz, Sarah Meli, Stephanie Morse, Lisa Neman, Emily our Sydney Phillips, Ashley Plantis, Brooke Portelli, Nicole Ragnon, Alyssa Ramo, Joseph Richards, Chelsea Rogers, Lauren Rose, Bailey Russell, Abigail Saber, Emily Seaman, Edward Schaefer, Rachel Seekin, Lisa Spatola, Angela Thompson, Abigail Timco, Megan Terski, Alita Valdez Garcia, Joshua Vanaman, Kristen Warner, Annabelle Wenrich, Sheila Wowski and Cassidy Ziggbar. Okay. Okay. If all all of the
046tenure recipients could turn around and face the board, please. Mhm. It looked better when we drew it out. Yeah. And to begin, may I have a motion, please? Maybe. I move that the board of education approves the granting of tenure to the teachers as presented. Support. Okay. Motion made and supported. I have a few comments and then you're going to take your teacher oath following which the board will vote on the motion hopefully to approve. That's just jokes. After the vote, we'd like you to stay up front so we can take some pictures. After that, we'll take a short recess. You and your family and friends are more than welcome to stay for the rest of the meeting and we can certainly understand it if you would prefer to leave. Um, in a minute I'm
047going to read the information provided by the Michigan Department of Education. It is a little impersonal. So before that, on behalf of the board, I'd like to offer some congratulations to all of you for this accomplishment. And I want to echo some of the things Dr. Ryan said in his superintendent comments. Um, we know these days it's not easy to be a teacher and we may not say it enough, but as a board we are very proud of the teaching staff that we have here in Clarkston. We want the very best teachers. Our kids deserve the very best, and we know you have the passion and the love of teaching to be the very best. In August, I did a short welcome to the then brand new teachers and staff and talked about how special
048Clarkston and Clarkston schools is. Uh many of our administrators and teaching staff start their careers in Clarkston and then stay for their entire professional careers beginning with Dr. Ryan back there somewhere and on down. You all took that first step five years ago or thereabouts when you had your orientation and your standing here today is another step on a journey that we hope will be a permanent commitment to Clarkston and Clarkston community schools. We have a culture in Clarkston. We have a vision statement. We have a mission statement. We have a strategic plan. We're doing all those things. And those are very important documents, but in the end, they're just words on a piece of paper. What you do is important. And the impact you have on our kids is tremendous. So when you go
049to work tomorrow as a tenure teacher, know that we are proud of you. We're grateful to have you and we will do our best as a board to give you the tools you need to succeed. Thank you. And now to the oath. Our society has charged public education with trust and responsibility that requires the professional educators the highest ideals and quality service. The Michigan State Board of Education has adopted the following code of ethics to articulate the ethical standards to which professional educators are expected to adhere in their job performance and there are five of them. Number one, service towards common good. The professional educator's primary goal is to support the growth and development of all learners for the purpose of creating and sustaining an informed citizenry in a democratic society. Number two, mutual respect.
050Professional educators respect the inherent dign dignity and worth of each individual. Number three, equity. Professional educators advocate the practice of equity. The professional educator advocates for equal access to educational opportunities for each individual student. Number four, diversity. Professional educators promote cross-cultural awareness by honoring and valuing individual differences and supporting the strengths of all individuals to ensure that instruction reflects the realities and diversity of the world. Number five, truth and honesty. Professional educators uphold personal and professional integrity and behave in a trustworthy manner. They adhere to acceptable social practices, current state law, state and national student assessment guidelines, and exercise sound professional judgment. And I am now asking our teachers to reaffirm their commitment to the oath of office of teacher. Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I do solemnly affirm I do
051solemnly affirm that I will support that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America the Constitution of the United States of America and the constit excuse me constitution of the state of Michigan and the Constitution of the State of Michigan that I will faithfully discharge the duties that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of teacher of the office of teacher according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability. I'll be the first to congratulate [Applause] you. Not that you need to take that back. Mr. Hyer just reminded me that we haven't voted on that yet. All those in favor of the motion to grant tenure, please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carry. Again, congratulations. [Applause] Add some snap in. Correct. Mrs.
052Ple, she's out there. We can go out. Big picture. Heat. Heat. And again, at this time, we'll take a short recess. Please feel free to stay if you'd like to, but we certainly understand is mostly empty, but we will continue with the agenda. Item 6.1, 6.2, I'm sorry, approval of personnel changes. May I have a motion, please? I move the board of education approves personnel changes as listed on the attached sheets as presented. Support. Motion's made and supported. Any comments or questions? Seeing none, all those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Thank you. Item 6.3 is the approval of several curriculum adoptions. May I have a motion? We're going to do these in one combined motion even though these are seven different items on the agenda. So, may
053I have a motion, please? I move that the board of education approves the curriculum and resource proposals for uls anatomy and physiology, Spanish 5, Spanish 4, French 5, French 4, and French 3 for a total amount of $41,47546 as presented. Support motions made and supported. All of these um items have passed through our teaching and learning council of which Mrs. Crane and Mrs. Love serve. Are there any comments or questions? Mrs. McInness. President Ne. I just have a quick question as to whether or not are these all existing classes and they're just curriculum updates or are there anything that's new here? Mrs. Mahoney, perhaps you could field that. Yes, these are all current courses. Yep. the unique learning system is to support our um special education students. So, we're excited about that. Any other comments
054or questions? Seeing none, all those in favor of the motion, please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Thank you. Item 6.4 is the approval of our food services contract with Chartwells. May I have a motion, please? I motion that the board of education approves the food service management contract with Chartwells for the 202526 school year as presented. Support. Motions made and supported. Any comments or questions? I guess for the public I would indicate this will be our seventh year of Chartwells. We have had in my view an excellent partnership with them. Um the quality of food service has been uh has been superb through that tenure and it no longer is a money losing proposition which is also a good thing for us and you know we have heard nothing but good
055things. So and you know we're here tonight so um any comments or questions? Seeing none all those in favor of the motion please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Thanks again. Item 6.5 is the approval of the 2025 tax rate request. May I have a motion, please? I motion that the board of education approves the 2025 tax rate request as presented. Support. Motion's made and supported. We had the public hearing prior to the regular part of the board meeting. Mrs. Rogers is here if anybody has any questions or comments. Seeing none, all those in favor of the motion, please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Thank you. Item 6.7 is approval of the Elen County School Board Association bylaws and resolutions. May I have a motion, please? Thought we
056skipped one. I'm sorry. I move that the board of education votes to approve the recommended OCSBA resolutions and bylaw amendments as presented. I do think we skipped one. Do I hear a support? Support. I realize I skipped an item. We'll get back to that in a moment. Um, Mrs. Crane is on the board of directors of OCSBA and she can give just a quick summary of what we're being asked to approve. Yes, I am also the chair of the resolutions and bylaws committee. So, a lot of these amendments um came with me, at least the first four, which were all grammatical were ones that I kind of pushed through. Um, so in the bylaws, the first four were all grammatical. Um, the only substantial changes in the bylaws included removing outdated forms of communication such
057as facts and mailings. OCSBA does all of its communications via email. We also added reference to the newly adopted board operating procedures and things like that. Um, the biggest substantial change I saw was adding a section that allows the board of directors to correct any future grammar and spelling errors um by a vote from the board of directors and not going out to the greater membership. For the resolutions, uh, a lot of the resolution amendments were cleaning up language and formatting, adding language to include resources for cyber security. We also added COSBA to the list of associations which with which we are aligned as the Michigan Association of School Boards belongs to both the National School Board Association and COSBA which is the Consortium of State School Boards Associations. Thank you, Mrs. Crane. Any comments
058or questions? Seeing none, all those in favor I'm sorry. This requires a roll call vote. Mrs. Mr. Can you please call the role? Yes. Mrs. Crane? Yes. Mrs. McInness? Yes. Mr. Hire? Yes. Mrs. Egan? Yes. Mr. Clark? Yes. Mrs. Love? No. Uh, Mr. Ne? Yes. Motion carried. Thank you. Um, now we will move back to item 6.6 that I inadvertently skipped. the approval of the resolution regarding the purchasing bid for the school buses. May I have a motion, please? I move that the board of education adopts the resolution to accept the bid of 4.15% interest from Huntington Bank to finance the installment purchase agreement for four new 77 passenger school buses as presented. Report. Motion's made and supported. As the uh agenda item noted, we only received one bid from on this item. Are there
059any questions or comments? Seeing none, this also requires a roll call vote. Mrs. Mlan, can you please call the role? Yes. Mrs. Egan? Yes. Mrs. Love, yes. Uh, Mr. Clark, yes. Mrs. McInness, yes. Mr. Hire, yes. Mrs. Crane, yes. Mr. Neat. Yes. Motion carried. Thank you. Item 6.8 is the approval or disapproval of the Oakland schools 202526 budget. May I have a motion, please? I move that the board of education votes to approve the recommended OCSBA resolutions. I think I'm on the wrong, aren't I? Sorry. Nope. Six 6.8. Nope. I just I went back and Yeah, go ahead. I move that the Clarkson Community Schools Board of Education approve the attached resolution to approve or disapprove to approve the Oakland schools 202526 general fund operating budget as submitted. Support motion's made and supported. Mrs. Egan
060is our liaison to Oakland schools. Do you have any quick summary of this item? just a few items that were highlighted in the new superintendence um um executive summary letter and I just wanted to point out some of the uh we had our last Oakland County School Board Association meeting actually at the Northwest campus and so we had the opportunity to go and visit and see the actual facility and some of the programs offered there. So in this budget um some of the highlights are um the tech center campus renovations which is going to be things like flooring and lighting and so on. Um a focus on I just wanted to highlight the curricular um updates because I think this is pretty interesting. Um there is going to be the essential practices and instruction focusing
061on numeracy project literacy essentials Oakland and in the science area nanotechnology artificial intelligence and synthetic biology labs um also some shared services um focus. So, um I don't know if there's anything else that anyone wants to know about, but we actually do have copy of the original budget. This is a five-year budget, so um there's one new year added um every year. And again, the school code requires us to consider this, but our action is practically of no effect. That said, are there any comments or questions on the motion? This also requires a roll call vote. The uh motion on the floor is for a resolution approving the budget. Mrs. Mlan, can you please call the role? Yes. Mrs. Egan? Yes. Mr. Hyer? Yes. Mrs. Crane? Yes. Mrs. Love? No. Mr. Clark? Yes. Mrs. McInness?
062Yes. Mr. Ne? Yes. Motion carried. Thank you. Item 6.9 is the approval of the new student representation policy. May I have a motion, please? I move that the board of education approves the new policy regarding student representation on the school board as presented. Support. Motion's made supported. Uh this matter has been before us a couple of times. It was initiated by a petition from a group of students at Clarkston High School seeking some form of student rep representation on the school board. Um it has been uh reviewed by our policy committee. Mrs. McInness is the chair and would ask if she has any things she would like to add to this item. Just that we took of the input from various board members and um I took a lot of thought about when I went
063to national conference and the participation of the students that were there. Um their participation is very robust in the state of Massachusetts is required by their school code. Um, so of course we have a long way to go in Michigan before we have something like they have, but I think this is a great starting point for us to start incorporation of student representation on the board. And I appreciate everybody's input. Any questions or comments for Mrs. McInness or otherwise, Mr. Mr. Hire? The only thing I thought we should spell out a little more clearly is I think the intent with the rotation is that we have two-year terms. It doesn't say that in here. I think it was our intention that we would put those into the operating procedures because you you we go lengths
064to spell out a junior be every year to maintain two representatives and it sort of alludes to the fact that it would be a two-year term, but it doesn't actually say that. Do you want to offer a friendly method to add a statement there? Um, I would definitely like to include that statement. I would support that statement. And just so we're clear, for the first year, there would be one student for a two-year term, one student for a one-year term, and then subsequently two-year terms. Is that consistent with the intent? Yes. Intent. Yes. with that. Okay, we have an amendment on the motion. All those in favor of the amendment, I'm sorry, Mr. Hireer. Just discussion on the amendment in terms of writing that out like I think something needs to go in the first
065line that sort of establishes it and then probably in the last line that continues it. And I I would be happy to sort of approve this and have the policy committee bring back that amended version that we could reapprove might be the best way to do it because I don't know that it's just like a couple words that we throw in that might be the best way to do this because clearly this is our intent but then sure to have that piece if the policy committee is okay with that. Would we have to specify like if they didn't want to do if they resigned or something what the process would be of electing or is that kind of up to them? I think that would be in the board operating procedures. Okay. What we had
066talked about the few times we've talked about it is keeping this and and please Mrs. McInness if you're you've got different feedback um keeping this relatively vague and just saying exactly what Mr. Hy are saying and saying what Mrs. McInness and Mrs. Egan put forward in the board operating procedures. We're going to kind of work with the students and do and that's a good one. I hadn't thought of Mrs. Love. So, I like that because that is something we really need to think about for sure. May it please the board that I add to the first paragraph that it is the intention that the junior comes on as a two-year representative. Yeah. the the the the third paragraph here, I think you would say she'll be one high school senior that will serve a one-year
067term and one high school junior serving a two-year term. And then at the end, it would say something like thereafter all students would be two-year terms, staggered two-year terms or something like that. But the senior will only still be one year term. Just that's only a one one time thing, right? My point is just that when they become senior, there's still only a one year left. The paragraph does start with term. I think the intent was that the junior would be elected for a two-year term. So, there wouldn't be a second election. That person would have a two-year term. So, yeah, once they're a senior, they're serving the last year of their two-year term. We're adding one person every year. Every year, right? Would it be What's the pleasure of the board? Should we table
068this item and then the policy committee can come back with clarifying language for the June meeting because again I think the intent was to make this effective for the 202526 school year so we don't have to take action on this tonight. I I would like I think that's good. Okay. I will uh move to refer this matter back to the policy committee support. All those in favor please signify by saying I. I. Any oppose? Motion carried. Thank you. Item 6.10 is the approval of various change orders for the Clarkston Junior High School and Pine Knob uh elementary HVAC. May I have a motion, please? I move the board of education approve the construction change orders for Industrial Process Piping in the amount of $90,562 for A&M Construction Company in the amount of $74,24 and for
069Ki Corporation the amount of $8,220 as presented. Support motions made and supported Mr. Goodman's in the audience in case anybody has any questions or comments. Seeing none, all those in favor of the motion, please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Thank you. We have two report items. Item 7.1 is our monthly finance report. And again, Mrs. Rogers, this is our um financial update effective April 30th, 2025. Um budget to actual revenue is uh 68.45%. Your budget to actual expenditures are just under 73%. And you'll see it it did start to decline a little. Your fund equity um effective April 30th at 22.7 is where we ended with the fund equity. So, do we have any questions um about anything that was given to you? Any questions or comments for Mrs. Rogers on
070the monthly finance report? Okay. Thank you. Report item 7.2. We had a couple of board members attend the MASB spring institute conference and Mrs. Crane is going to give us a brief report on what she learned. I did. Um yes, I did the spring institute at Machina Island. I went with Mr. hire who was attending on behalf of MASB. Um, for any of you who have not gone to Mina Island, the very first weekend it opens of the season, it was about 35 degrees and rain coming in sideways into the ferry. So, that was fun. Um, it's actually it's just it's beautiful. But the first day we did a pre-conference workshop and it was all about artificial intelligence which I'm trying to learn as much as I can in in the scope of education because
071it's not going anywhere. And I think Mr. higher would agree. We learned some really interesting tools and tricks on how some other districts have been using it and really kind of working to how they put it save teacher time and able to serve their students best and you know the policies that school districts really need to start putting in place. So we will get back with you guys on some of those things. Um the next two days I took a two day so two full day class on board president workshop. So yeah that was what I did. Any questions for Mr. Mrs. Crane or Mr. Hire? Thank you. We have one discussion item tonight. Item 8.1 our board affordability model update. Dr. Ryan, you want to lead this on? Absolutely. I'd be more than happy
072to lead the kind of the conversation here. First, I'd thank Miss Rogers for helping me kind of keep up to date. I know I constantly down march down to our office with either new information or new information come from the outside world that we have to constantly metriculate into our database for continued forecasting and planning as we move forward. Um, to that end, um, I know I updated you all in the weekend review, but I thought it was important publicly to make sure that we had a quick review and a gut check with our board affordability model. Um, couple things as we move into the last phase of the the current budget and move into the preparing for the next budget. One is is that I feel like this is getting tighter and tighter as
073a representation of what we're going to see for the 26 fiscal year. Um, that being said, what has changed since our last presentation discussion? Couple things. One of them related to a accounting piece that has to do with number of years ago the federal government changed some of the regulations and rulings and how we do FICA and how we collect from employees and what our responsibilities as a school district. Um that was over $500,000 that we've been holding on to in preparation whenever if they're listening tonight the IRS would come looking for potentially other piece of it. Um, as that's panned out, uh, we've been advised by all accounting, uh, professionals and legal advice that it's time to add that to our roles, uh, into our fund balance as we push forward. Uh, additionally, although
074you saw a large crop of uh, newly minted tenure teachers this evening, uh, you should also know that we have a very large batch of teachers retiring this year. um that's going to shift to the column based on the experienced salaries versus um new employees. Um we're of the trajectory this year to try to get as much of the strong talent coming out of college that's available. Um we've over the last couple years have had a nice mix of of staff that we brought in both externally, you know, with experience uh and out of college. And I feel like that we're at a good spot to really uh actualize the savings in that regard. And then finally, the enrollment piece. Uh we've been headlong in the staffing and I applaud Mr. Seed and our principles
075have been working hard to make sure that you know we have all our classrooms covered that we maintain those strong low class sizes as we move into the future. And so far as we're we're progressing and we do year point of year studies from March this year, March last year, March the year before, September's all the way back. And right now we're trending uh upward right now which is an unusual spot for us. I'll look to Mr. Lceto so he can now roughly 38 students that in addition to the open enrollment piece that we put in you know could easily be a shift of another million dollars. Uh my bottom line what I kind of put in we can view some of my rationale and I just lost off my computer blank but that you
076see that it's roughly 1.3 million is thank you 1.3 million represents about roughly 1% of our fund balance right now. um we're under that even on our our sheet as we go into the final budget amendment piece and it wouldn't be out of the question under spending that we might even be in a more positive light as we finish the year. Um that being said, uh looking at the posture of our current class sizes and programming, you know, I I think we're in a position to actualize the savings that we originally looking in intend for roughly a million dollar reduction for next year in other ways. And I wanted to at least get feedback from the board. Your administration, our posture right now, we don't see the immediate reason to start making reductions as as
077it is right now based on the current financial uh information that we have. Um not saying we wouldn't, but saying the equivalency of how we're realizing it is just different. Uh but I wanted to be very transparent out to our community and to our board to weigh in. And uh I don't want to be positioned over the next three or four years of going from 22% which is again just under $30 million fund balance to increasing that to 30 35 37 or higher because um the trending and I know for some of our long-term riders I look at pretty much the entire board minus uh um Mr. Clark and uh Miss Love, we predict doomsday known to a certain degree of looking at finances in multiple years. um with a very conservative repro approach and
078we generally outperform ourselves every single year for for at least the last uh 15 years 10 years that I've been up in in an executive role here and I think that I think we're in a good position right now to kind of move forward into the next fiscal year holding patent with what we have again actualizing realizing the savings that we can in those categories that I just said or revenue enhancements and then be prepared to be very light on our feet as we face the next several years. I mean, knowing that, you know, some of the federal entitlements might radically change. We have other things that related to inflationary pressures and uh you know, whether it be tariffs or other things that could cause um fluctuations of increases to the school district that we're
079going to have to react to. Um to that light, we're already buttoning down the the hatches in terms I'll give you a footnote that, you know, whether it's technology, we're prepared to make or not make purchases based on the next uh 18 to 24 months of eventualities. We feel no pressure to make said purchases. We don't feel like there's anything the school district is going to be put in a lurch uh in immediate fashion. But obviously, you know, you have to, you know, it's it's comforting to take a conservative approach. Um, I don't believe in my career that we've ever hovered in this in this neighborhood uh indefinitely. And and honestly, you know, we want to make sure we have money so we never ever ever have to borrow money in Clarkston. Barring that, I'm
080always looking for opportunities for new programming and ways that we can invest. And I think the current uh financial state of the school district provides for that. We have room to explore different scheduling measures. We have room to look at, you know, expanding MTSS in the secondary. None of what you're seeing in in front right now is representative of anything that I think that would inhibit us moving forward in the new strategic plan. And I also put a secondary PS to that that we will constantly be evaluating the programs and things that we have. You don't endlessly continue to add layers on. You have to kind of look at the efficacy of the layers that you have and be prepared to in one hand make reductions and eliminate programs that might not be interested, you
081know, are pursued by our students or things that at least best practices don't suggest that we continue on while you pursue other things. Uh I I plan to move that hand in hand. I just wanted to do a gut check with my uh financial right hand here at the podium to take any specific questions you have and to make sure that we're all on the same page. That's my story. Thank you, Dr. Ryan. Anything to add, Mrs. Rogers? Yeah, I have a few things that I wanted to go over. Um, another There was a couple other changes that Sean didn't mention. We also did lower the student uh shared service FTE. We did lower that from the last time we brought this to you in March. We had a full 10% growth. We don't feel
082we're going to experience that next year. So, we did lower that FTE. If you compare what I gave you in March, you'll see that the in the assumptions that is now down to 20 2173 FTE for shared service and it was like over 2,300 when we brought you the March one. So that's a change. And another change, there was some a few more one-time fundings I had to take away. And then the PA18 allocation came in from the ISD uh millillage and their initial allocation was down 421,000 from this year. So I did have to lower that also for next year. Um but sometimes their allocation goes up later on in the year, but for now that's what they're telling us. And um trying to think of any other changes. Um, the only other thing
083I would suggest, and then I was going to go over a few things that are going on out in the legislation, but Sean talked about how our um, FTEES for the spring count are up 48 FTE from our fall February or our February count is up 48 FTE over our October count. That is not reflected in what was given to you. We still have it as the 25 75 gain from open enrollment and the 50 student loss. So that is something we can change if you if that's something you desire to have if anybody has a desire to change that to make the future look a little little better or we can keep it conservative and keep the 50 student loss. That's up to you guys as I build the budget that I'll be bringing
084you June 9th. So, I'll bring that up. And then I kind of the Senate came out with their budget and they had a pupil increase. The governor has a 392. That's what we currently have in this. So, they had a 400 and the House has not like fully come out with theirs yet, but right now they are saying 417 at the house. Um, so they're all pretty close to what they're saying. the um per pupil foundation increases and they all agree though on the mipers and I just want to point out that our 392 is ate up pretty much by the mipers changes they are um even though we were supposed to get a 5.75 reduction we did get that but then they increased the healthc care subsidy part of the pension by 4.3% so
085in the end we really only got a 1.45% 45% reduction instead of the 5.75 but they took away the 5.75 onetime funding which is 3.6 six million to us and um so this is about you'll see where I show our mesters is down about it's probably going to be down around 2 million our meipsters next year if that goes through and so far all three seem to agree on that there probably will not be a budget most likely in time for our June 9th we're looking at more of an August September I feel like from what I'm hearing and is there anything else and the revenue consensus is Friday. So, we'll maybe we'll know a little more then. Thank you, Mrs. Rogers. Questions or comments from board members? Mrs. Blood? Um, yes. What is the
086shared service increase now? Was it It was 10% you're saying, but now it's less than that. Yeah, you can see it in your spreadsheet that was shared with you. It should say 2173 FTE, right? I'm wondering what percent. And that was when it was given to you in March, it was it was 10% of the 2144. If I remember right, it was like 23, I want to say 68 maybe if I'm trying to remember right. What we gave you in March, it went down. Do you know what percentages it it is? So it was 10% increase. Do you know what increase? Is it 9% now? Is it 8% now? Well, it's the 2140 com. It's actually pretty much almost flat. It's just up 30 students. It's 21. It was It was 2144 this year. We're
087looking at 2173 this year. It's going to be pretty flat. But related to that, it also needs to know as Mr. Lid would tell you that we were above the 10% capture last week that last year that we couldn't even we couldn't count them. They were kind of in the bank for this year. So next year we'll actually be able to count students that will still be an additional growth piece. You want to talk about the magnitude of that Mr. Lita in brief or just roughly we we're allowed the 10% growth but we allow the p we've been allowing private schools to grow more and then we won't we're not able to count them. So even though we don't have a growth showing on our 10% our revenue should be getting better because of that.
088Does that make sense? So if if with shared service, if we're able to grow 10% but it's a school that wants to add more classes, historically we've always let them grow. So we might have grown 14 15. I'm making these numbers up, but I can get you detailed stuff tomorrow if you would like. But so we might grow by 15% knowing we can't count 5% of that. And then the following year it's automatic revenue without an increase in expense because we're already carrying the expense without the revenue. Okay. So, what why did we decrease the shared service FTE? We didn't we're up we're up 30. We just didn't get we didn't get additional schools. Okay. And there's some little schools that we backed off of. Um and we did lose some FTEEs for them, but
089it's actually it's operationally it made sense. So, um Got it. And in your scenario that you just said, the 15% becomes our new baseline for 10% growth next year. Correct. That's that's a great point, Mrs. McGinness, because by doing that, our 10% is based on even what we couldn't count. So, we have a lot of growth opportunity now. We're just we're being a little more selective now, too, um, with all the experience we have with the schools that we take and the schools that we keep. Um, so we we will have an increase in revenue just by by being able to take advantage of what we could count this year. And then this model shows 10% for 2026 27 and the following year. If you do the calculations, it is a 10% growth in those
090two years. Yeah. And I'm pretty confident that we'll we'll be able to get there. We've had a lot of transition in the last last year. Any other comments? I'm going to add I want to add to that if you want. I can send you the numbers. from what I brought you in March, what the revenue is, how it went down, and where the expenses were, and what the actual net effect is of dropping the shared service. I can send that number to Sean tomorrow. I'll put in this week's weekend review. That'd be great. Thank you. Any other comments? Okay, hearing none. Thank you, Mrs. Rogers. Thank you, Dr. Ryan. Appreciate that. Item nine is the for those of you who are still here the second opportunity for citizens to address the board on any topic.
091Is there anyone who would like to address the board? Thank you. Several information items. Our next board of education meeting is next Monday, May 19th at 6 p.m. It will be a workshop regarding elementary student opportunities and advanced programming. Our final regular meeting for the school year will then be Monday, June 9th at 7 p.m. Item 10.2, as Dr. Ryan indicated, the uh Clarkston High School and Renaissance High School senior walk clapout will be this Thursday, 10:30 at Clarkston High School, 11:15 at Renaissance. The Clarkston Foundation Teacher of the Year reception is Thursday, May 15th, 4:30 p.m. here in the boardroom. The uh farewell, I guess, Clarkston Junior High School open house is Saturday, May 17th from 1 to 3:00 p.m. May 26 is Memorial Day. No school for students or staff. The Renaissance High
092School graduation ceremon dinner and ceremony then is Thursday, May 29th. The dinner is at 5:00 p.m. In the past, has been a picnic dinner. And then the graduation ceremony itself at the high school at 700 p.m. The Clarkston High School graduation then is Monday, June 2nd, 6:00 p.m. at Pine Knob. And finally, the last half day of school for all students is Friday, June 6th. Item 11 is adjournment. May I have a motion, please? I move to adjourn. Motion's made and supported. All those in favor, please say I. I. Those opposed? Motion carried. Thank you everybody. A lot of stuff on the agenda, but it was a good meeting.